Rate makes Dubai Metro one of the safest in the world
Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), has revealed that the faults rate in Dubai Metro is one single fault per 4 million kilometers covered by the metro, which translates to one fault in one metro car every 800,000 km.
Such a rate is considered as excellent when measured by the standards of modern trains' faults worldwide, and a testament to RTA's commitment to provide the highest safety and security levels in the operation of the Dubai Metro.
Al Tayer made these comments in a tour that took him to the Control Center and Trains Maintenance & Cleaning Workshop at the Jebel Ali Depot during which he was accompanied by the CEO of Rail Agency Adnan Al Hammadi, Director of Rail Planning & Development Abdul Rida Abu Al Hasan, Director of Rail Operation Ramadan Abdullah, Director of Rail Operation Ali Abdul Qadir, and a number of engineers.
During the tour, Al Tayer was briefed by Adnan Al Hammadi about the work mechanism adopted in Jebel Ali Metro Depot which spans an area of 110,000 square meters, and acts as a standby control center for operating the Metro in case of any failure in the Control Center at Al Rashidiya.
Operation tests are carried out regularly for all the facilities of Jebel Ali Metro Depot to measure their operational readiness.
Al Hammadi added that the depot has a capacity to house 40 trains, and the workshop carries out internal cleaning of 20 trains, and body washing of 8 trains per day.
RTA Chairman of the Board and Executive Director then toured the sections of the Workshop where trains maintenance and cleaning is carried out.
The Dubai Metro has three depots for maintaining and cleaning trains; two for the Red Line at Al Rashidiya and Jebel Ali, and one for the Green Line at Al Qusais.
It also has two Metro Operation Control Centers; one at Jebel Ali (as a contingency control center), and the other is the Main Control Center at Al Rashidiya; which acts as a watchdog of the movement of trains throughout the day to ensure the safety of commuters.
There is a giant display monitor for both lines in addition to 37 totally separate display monitors on the Red Line and 28 monitors on the Green Line.
The Center controls and monitors the movement of the rolling stock and relevant systems through monitoring the performance of the automated systems of trains movement, communication, transformers, and power feed of trains and metro stations.
The Control Center monitors trains movement, provides passengers information systems, manages trains entry into railway, controls the operation and stopping of trains, monitors the environmental control, and watches the power supply feed for trains and stations.
It also supervises the safety systems such as the systems of firefighting, ventilation of tunnel and station systems, and train air-conditioning besides verifying the safety of doors, brakes and engines of each train individually.
© Emirates 24|7 2012
